Stark's History and Guide to the Bahama Islands

This classic is organized as follows:


I. How to Reach Nassau

II. Discovery of the Bahamas by Columbus

III. Aboriginal Inhabitants

IV. The Buccaneers

V. The Charter and Settlement of the Bahamas

VI. Expulsis Piratis, Restituta Commercia

VII. Capture of Nassau by Commodore Hopkins

VIII. Conquest and Settlement of the Bahamas by the Loyalists

IX. Nassau During the Blockade

X. Blockade Running

XI. Nassau

XII. Places of Interest in the Vicinity of Nassau

XIII. The Out Islands

XIV. The Monument Erected to Mark the Spot on Which Columbus Landed

XV. Description of the Bahamas in 1783

XVI. The Inhabitants of the Bahamas, Their Manners and Customs

XVII. Negroes and Slavery

XVIII. Government

XIX. Commerce and Agriculture

XX. Sponge Fisheries

XXI. Climate—The Bahamas as a Health Resort

XXII. The Geological Formation of the Bahamas

XXIII. Religion and Education